Rs 90 LPA in Bengaluru or $300k in San Jose: Redditor asks if it's wiser to move to US on an L1 visa

Redditor asks if Rs 90LPA in Bengaluru better than $300k in San Jose. The dollar-rupee conversion is not always a straight calculation, especially when there are issues of lifestyle and career growth to be taken into account. $300k is more than Rs 90 lakh mathematically but a Redditor said he's unable to make up his mind whether he should move to the US on a $300k offer in San Jose or whether he should continue in Bengaluru, where he is getting Rs 90 LPA. For context, he said that it would not be on an H-1B visa but an L-1, in which he will be transferred from India to the US to work for the same company. It's a startup that he had been working for for around two years. He added that he is a 36-year-old married man with no loans, no kids -- and his wife works part-time.The man said that career-wise he feels saturated in Bengaluru, so much so that he would call it borderline lazy as he also wondered whether he had any scope to grow more in Bengaluru. He said he spoke to his San Francisco region friends who dismissed his interest in taking the plunge but he showed a keen interest in exploring a US career and he said he researched the cost of living and concluded that he could be savi...